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The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War: Translated by Cecil Parrott. with Original Illustrations by Josef Lada.

The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War: Translated by Cecil Parrott. with Original Illustrations by Josef Lada. - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jaroslav HasekPublish date:2018-08-07Pages:784
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780062835444ISBN-10:62835440UPC:9780062835444Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, War & Military, HistoricalBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.80 x 5.30 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCTBN64AFF

Discover "perhaps the funniest novel ever written" (The Guardian ), now beautifully reissued

"The classic comic novel of the First World War." --The New Yorker - "A literary masterpiece." --New York Review of Books - "One of the greatest works of 20th century literature." --Boston Globe

Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk follows the adventures of Josef Svejk, a boisterous and sometimes bumbling (or brilliantly subversive?) Czech soldier, as he navigates the trials of World War I. Thrust into the Austro-Hungarian Empire's army in 1914, Svejk, "one of the great characters of 20th century literature" (New Republic), embarks on a wild trip through war-ravaged Europe as he fakes illnesses, is captured by his own men, and takes on various quixotic quests to avoid arriving at the front lines, always with a bizarre--and often hilarious--anecdote at the ready. Predating countercultural American classics like Catch-22 by a generation, The Good Soldier Svejk was the first great antiwar satire, and still one of the finest ever written.


Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780062835444ISBN-10:62835440UPC:9780062835444Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, War & Military, HistoricalBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.80 x 5.30 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCTBN64AFF
Publisher: Harper Perennial

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Jaroslav Hasek

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